Minority rights focus in the United Nations 15 OHCHR has 11 country offices (in Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Cambodia, Colombia, Guatemala, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Nepal, Togo, Tunisia and Uganda) and two standalone offices, in Kosovo and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Regional offices Regional offices are also established on the basis of an agreement with the host Government, and cover countries where there is no other OHCHR field presence. They complement the expertise of country presences by providing support on institutional and thematic issues in terms of capacitybuilding, fact-finding, advocacy and other activities. They focus on cross-cutting regional human rights concerns. They also support Governments with special procedures, follow-up on recommendations made by treaty bodies and matters relating to the universal periodic review. They work closely with regional and subregional NGOs and intergovernmental organizations, including in relation to the work of United Nations human rights mechanisms. OHCHR has 10 regional offices, in East Africa (Addis Ababa), Southern Africa (Pretoria), West Africa (Dakar), South-East Asia (Bangkok), the Pacific (Suva), the Middle East (Beirut), Central Asia (Bishkek), Europe (Brussels), Central America (Panama City) and South America (Santiago de Chile). It also has a regional human rights centre in Central Africa (Yaoundé) and a human rights training and documentation centre for South-West Asia and the Arab region (Doha). Human rights components of peace missions OHCHR provides support to human rights components in United Nations peace missions. Based on Security Council resolutions establishing the relevant peace mission, the mandates of human rights components include human rights monitoring and investigation as well as technical cooperation. Fifteen United Nations peace missions have a human rights component: UNAMA (Afghanistan), BNUB (Burundi), BINUCA (Central African Republic), UNOCI (Côte d’Ivoire), MONUSCO (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), UNIOGBIS (Guinea-Bissau), MINUSTAH (Haiti), UNAMI (Iraq), UNMIL (Liberia), UNSMIL (Libya), UNIPSIL (Sierra Leone), UNPOS (Somalia), UNMISS (South Sudan), UNAMID (Darfur, Sudan) and UNMIT (Timor-Leste). Human rights advisers to United Nations country teams The Resident Coordinator system encompasses all organizations of the United Nations system concerned with operational activities for development, regardless of their formal presence in the country. The system aims to bring United Nations agencies together to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operational activities at country level. Human rights advisers are deployed at the request of the Resident Coordinator in a country and assist him or her, and the United Nations country team, to integrate human rights into their programmes and activities. They also advise on strategies to strengthen national human rights capacities; advise and provide training to independent national human rights institutions; build networks with and provide practical support to civil society actors; and provide operational support to human rights training and/or national capacity-building activities. Resident Coordinators lead United Nations country teams in more than 130 countries and are the designated representatives of the United Nations Secretary-General for development operations. Working closely with Governments, Resident Coordinators and country teams promote the interests and mandates of the United Nations system. OHCHR has 18 human rights advisers, in Ecuador, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Honduras, Kenya, Madagascar, the Republic of Moldova, Niger, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, Serbia, the South Caucasus region (based in Tbilisi

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